Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies

Joyce M. Barry’s interdisciplinary research examines the connections between gender and environmental justice thought and praxis. She has published reviews and articles in Environmental Ethics, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Environmental Justice and elsewhere. Barry’s book Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining, was published by Ohio University Press in 2012. Her current research investigates the gendered dimensions of global climate change. Her work has received support from the foundations of the National Endowment of the Humanities and the American Association of University Women. Barry received her doctorate in American culture studies from Bowling Green State University.

Recent Courses Taught

Introduction to Women’s Studies
Interpreting the American Environment
Gender and the Environment
Gender, Health and Technology
Feminist Methodological Perspectives
Gender and the Politics of Food

Distinctions

National Association of University Women Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)
National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship

“Remembering the Past, Working for the Future”: West Virginia Women Fight for Economic Justice and Environmental Heritage in the Age of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining.” Women of the Mountain South. Connie Rice & Marie Tedesco. Eds. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014.